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Sense and Sensibility

So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne parks

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her brush and tries to follow the instructions for flatpack art, but has the picture upside down It’s a dull job being a customs officer, sitting on the border twiddling your thumbs until the next teenage drugs mule comes along. So it must have
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added to the gaiety 404 Not Found of nations when […]

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Overkill: art rising from the dead

Things have gone rather quiet on the mortality front since queues stretched around the White Cube block in Mason’s Yard for a sight of Damien Hirst’s £50m sculpture

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For the Love of God. In those days
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of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks wrote a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary art, wondering 404 Not Found why two horrific world wars […]

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The way we are now – why ‘avant garde’ is now an obsolete term

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks

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– has just been celebrating the 404 Not Found triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It was so indeed, but not exactly
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in the terms the article intends. Here […]

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1988 … Year zero

… when branding and 404 Not Found art formed a marriage of convenience, argues artist John Kelly. 1988 is the seminal year, the year that our concepts

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of art, money

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and values changed irredeemably. It was the year I came to London as a 23-year-old artist, having taken an opportunity to play league cricket in London. It was a chance for a young […]